Ruby Oliver Quartet · Book 4
Real Live Boyfriends
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9780385734288
- Type
- novel
About this book
Lockhart closed the quartet in 2010 with Real Live Boyfriends, 224 pages, the year immediately following The Treasure Map of Boys. It completes Ruby's slow rebuilding of her own sense of self across her high school years, closing out a quartet often cited alongside The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks as Lockhart's defining early work.
Its place in Ruby Oliver Quartet
Real Live Boyfriends is book 4 in the Ruby Oliver Quartet series. It follows The Treasure Map of Boys. See the full Ruby Oliver Quartet reading order.
The Ruby Oliver Quartet follows Ruby Oliver, a Seattle teenager navigating panic attacks, a fractured friend group, and a running list of the fifteen boys she's ever had feelings about -- the literal boyfriend list that opens the series and gives the first book its title. Told in Ruby's wry, list-making, footnote-heavy first-person voice, the four novels track her through the social fallout of a breakup that costs her most of her friends, several rounds of not-quite-relationships, and a slow rebuilding of her own…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780385734288